What is the structure of Dongbianmen Gate Tower in Beijing?

Dongbianmen Gate Tower is a small-scale single-story building with a single eaves hill, a gray tile roof, four wooden doors and no windows. The width of three rooms is 1 1.2m, the depth of one room is 5.5m, and the height is 5.2m ... The podium of the room has just passed the wooden door, and the tower height is12.2m..

The urn is semicircular, with a width of 27.5m from east to west and a length of15.5m from north to south. It is a single-story hard mountain, with a single cornice, a gray tile roof, a wooden door on the south back, three arrow windows, two floors on each side, four holes on the weak side and two holes on each side.

Three rooms are 9 meters wide, and one room is 4.6 meters deep and 4.7 meters high. There is a door in the center of the city platform, an arched roof on the outside and a wooden square door on the inside. Tower height10.5m.

The southeast turret of Beijing city is the arrow tower in the southeast corner of Beijing inner city in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The original Beijing was divided into inner city and outer city, and the inner city was built earlier, which was rebuilt on the basis of the Yuan Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty. According to the records of Yingzong in Ming Dynasty:

In the afternoon of April in the fourth year of Orthodox Church, the gatehouse, moat and bridge gate of Shi Jing were completed. In the corner of the city stands a watchtower. The turret was built in the first year of Ming orthodoxy, which took four years to complete.

Dongbianmen turret is built on a square pedestal protruding from the outer edge of the city wall, with a total height of 29 meters and 144 arrow windows on all sides. There are 20 gold pillars in the turret, with a building area of 793 square meters. Together with the connected south city wall, the total area is about 3654 square meters.

Dongbianmen tower